Welcome to the SfN Neuroscience Database Gateway!
Databases are of growing importance in neuroscience, as in many other biomedical
research fields. The Neuroscience Database Gateway is a new resource for SfN members,
aimed at promoting awareness and facilitating access to relevant neuroscience databases.
The SfN Neuroscience Database Gateway provides links to five main types of database.
These can be seen by making the appropriate selection in the sidebar or below:
The gateway also includes basic search capabilities, using the
Linked Fields option.
The Neuroscience Database Gateway (NDG) began in 2004 as a pilot project developed
by the Society's
Brain Information Group (BIG). The NDG
is now overseen by the Society's Neuroinformatics Committee
and is hosted at Yale University (by Gordon Shepherd and Luis Marenco). Operational
support for the NDG towards development of a new Neuroscience Information Framework
(NIF) is supported by an NIH contract to a multi-institutional consortium (Daniel
Gardner, P.I.)
Acknowledgments
Essential support for the development of neuroscience databases has been provided
by the Human Brain Project, administered by the National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH). Brain Information Group (BIG) activities were supported by the Wadsworth
Foundation. The Neuroscience Database Gateway (NDG) was created with support
contributed by the NIMH, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(NINDS), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).